Mine is a 5x7 Deardorff Old Style (NFS) I bought the summer of my junior year in High School 1972. Still have it But retired it a decade or two ago...
Mine is a 5x7 Deardorff Old Style (NFS) I bought the summer of my junior year in High School 1972. Still have it But retired it a decade or two ago...
Ken Hough Deardorff Refinisher since 1982
Deardorff Factory refinisher / remanufacturer 1982-88
Deardorff Factory Historian 82-88
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8x10" Gowland, purchased in the 90s some time, still using it alongside various other LF cameras.
8x10 Improved Empire State plate camera.
"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude." Carl Sandburg
I have a Sinar Norma bought new in Copenhagen 1968. A Sinar P I bought in 1982 and used heavily on a daily basis till 2002 when digital became a matter of survival for a commercial photographer. I still admire this great camera for which I have both 4x5 and 8x10 backs and it is still in an impeccable condition because I always treated it well and sent is to Sinar/Schaffhausen for service. Some times I even use it to shoot 8x10 b&w.
I've had a Wista RF for nearly two years now...
I still have the Newton New-Vue bought in 1965, but haven't used the beast in many decades.
My first LF camera was also a Newton New-Vue, and if I had used a proper camera in college (a Linhof Color), it might have put me off completely. I don't remember what I traded it for, but it was worth it.
The LF camera I've owned the longest (and still own) is a Calumet CC-400. I haven't used it in decades, but at least I have good memories of using it.
In real dollars, I paid far more for both of those than I did my current camera, a Sinar F2.
Rick "always on a budget" Denney
I think it's my 4x5 Nagaoka, which I hardly ever use now. I bought it around the end of 1996.
A battered 4x5 Anny Speed Graphic I bought in 1996. It might be leaving soon so the heir to the crown will be a Deardorff V8.
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
Toyo-Field 810M with 300mm f5.6 Rodenstock Sironar-N lens that I bought from Sally Mann, I think in 2003. It was the camera and lens she used for the pictures that were published in "Immediate Family".
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